Nitrate Handbook
Environmental, Agricultural, and Health Effects
Nitrate Handbook: Environmental, Agricultural, and Health Effects provides an overview of the entire nitrate cycle and the processes influencing nitrate transformation. It clearly identifies the role of nitrate as an essential nutrient in plant growth, food preservation, and human health.
Using the most up-to-date knowledge and research, this handbook illustrates how the steadily increasing human population and demand for food, which results in higher amounts of nitrate needed by soils, makes new regulations on the management and usage of nitrates a high priority.
A detailed explanation concerning the discrepancies between the public’s perception of nitrate’s harm versus the reality of its human health benefits is given via a balanced and evidence-based approach. All questions pertaining to the influences of nitrate and its derivatives on plant physiology and human health are explored in depth.
This comprehensive resource with contributions from distinguished researches in the field is a must-have for professionals and students who study and work with nitrates.
Features:
Includes in depth discussion on the wide spectrum of nitrate present in the environment.
Focuses on the progress made on nitrate research and its importance.
Answers all questions about nitrate and its derivatives’ influences on plant physiology and human health.
Enables decision makers and public authorities to manage social concerns
Compiles in one resource the findings of many distinguished researchers in the field.
Table of Contents
Preface........................................................................................................................ix
Editor…………................................................................................................................xi
Contributors.............................................................................................................xiii
List of Abbreviations...............................................................................................xvii
PART 1 Nitrate in Soils
Chapter 1 Biogeochemistry of Nitrate in Soils......................................................3
Roberto Garcia-Ruiz, Milagros Torrus-Castillo,
Pablo Domouso de Agar, Roberto Garcia-Peran,
Gustavo Ruiz-Catedra, and Julio Calero
Chapter 2 Nitrate in Agricultural Soils................................................................25
Melida Gutierrez, Maria Teresa Alarcon-Herrera,
Esperanza Y. Calleros-Rincon, and Melissa Bledsoe
Chapter 3 Nitrate Transport in Agricultural Systems...........................................45
Sara Vero and Matthew Ascott
PART 2 Nitrate in Plants
Chapter 4 Nitrate in Plant Physiology.................................................................73
Jitu Chauhan, Simran Chachad, Zoya Shaikh,
Johra Khan, and Ahmad Ali
Chapter 5 Nitrate in Plant Nutrition.....................................................................91
Ya-Yun Wang
Chapter 6 Nitrogen Fertilizers and the Environment.........................................103
Eric Walling and Celine Vaneeckhaute
Chapter 7 Nitrate Management by Using Innovative Techniques.....................137
Eleftherios Evangelou and Christos Tsadilas
Chapter 8 Estimation of Nitrogen Status in Plants............................................163
Miguel Garcia-Servin, Luis Miguel Contreras-Medina,
Irineo Torres-Pacheco, and Ramon Gerardo Guevara-Gonzalez
PART 3 Nitrate in Water
Chapter 9 Nitrate in Fresh Waters......................................................................185
Daniel F. Gomez Isaza and Essie M. Rodgers
Chapter 10 Inorganic Nitrogen Ions of Surface and Ground Waters
of Sterea Hellas, Central Greece: A Case Study...............................209
Christos D. Tsadilas, Miltiadis Tziouvalekas,
Eleftherios Evangelou, Alexandros Tsitouras,
Christos Petsoulas, and Antonios Peppas
Chapter 11 Determination of Nitrate in Waters...................................................235
Md Eshrat E. Alahi, Fahmida Wazed Tina, and
Subhas Mukhopadhyay
PART 4 Nitrate in the Food Chain
Chapter 12 Nitrate in Plant and Animal Foods....................................................265
Małgorzata Karwowska
Chapter 13 Nitrate as Food Additives..................................................................281
Teresa D’Amore, Aurelia Di Taranto, Giovanna Berardi,
Valeria Vita, and Marco Iammarino
PART 5 Nitrate in Human Body
Chapter 14 Nitrate and Human Health: An Overview.........................................303
Keith R. Martin and Richard J. Bloomer
Chapter 15 Nitrate and Methemoglobinemia.......................................................347
Sarah Fossen Johnson
Chapter 16 Inorganic Nitrate and Nitrite: Dietary Nutrients or Poisons?............357
Nathan S. Bryan
Chapter 17 Nitrate and Cardiovascular Systems..................................................375
Andrew Xanthopoulos, Apostolos Dimos, Alexandros Zagouras,
Nikolaos Iakovis, John Skoularigis, and Filippos Triposkiadis
PART 6 Regulations
Chapter 18 Regulations on Nitrate Use and Management...................................405
Faycal Bouraoui, Panos Panagos, Anna Malago,
Alberto Pistocchi, and Christophe Didion
Index..............................................................................................425
